Librarians and other library staff in Los Angeles are becoming contact tracers.
In L.A. County, the two groups have twice the mortality rate of white residents, with more Latinos dying of COVID-19 than Black people. Latino and Black people disproportionately work asLibrary staff have volunteered at cooling centers andand shelter sites for people experiencing homelessness. They’ve delivered meals to senior Angelenos and other high-risk people.
Librarians doing contact tracing will call the person who tested positive for the coronavirus and ask for personal information that is kept confidential. The librarian may then connect the individual to medical care and support resources.Contract tracers will ask individuals what places they’ve been to and with whom they’ve spent time recently and then call those people.
Denice Nossett, a senior librarian at the Wilmington Branch Library, said she felt she had to serve during the pandemic.Advertisement The 28-year veteran of the L.A. Public Library has sticky notes taped above her home desktop with phone numbers for IT support and for language interpretation services. A poster of children’s book author Rosemary Wells hangs on one wall, and a poster of Harrison Ford for theHelping to curb the spread of the virus is personal for Nossett. She knows eight people who have been infected. An aunt and a longtime family friend died. She doesn’t want more people to suffer that fate.
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